https://community.nxp.com/t5/i-MX-Processors/Why-separate-vfat-partition-for-boot/m-p/1463220#M190771 <P>The standard sabresd image has a separate boot partition which is formatted as a vfat filesystem</P><P>Why is this? Why vfat?&nbsp;</P><P>I've read that the reason for separate boot partitions was that older BIOS's could only read small partitions. However why format it as vfat?</P><P>Is there any reason not to use a single ext4 partition for the rootfs and boot?</P> Tue, 24 May 2022 11:53:06 GMT diarmuidcollins 2022-05-24T11:53:06Z https://community.nxp.com/t5/i-MX-Processors/Why-separate-vfat-partition-for-boot/m-p/1463220#M190771 <P>The standard sabresd image has a separate boot partition which is formatted as a vfat filesystem</P><P>Why is this? Why vfat?&nbsp;</P><P>I've read that the reason for separate boot partitions was that older BIOS's could only read small partitions. However why format it as vfat?</P><P>Is there any reason not to use a single ext4 partition for the rootfs and boot?</P> Tue, 24 May 2022 11:53:06 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/i-MX-Processors/Why-separate-vfat-partition-for-boot/m-p/1463220#M190771 diarmuidcollins 2022-05-24T11:53:06Z